Independence Hall

From beneath the tower.

Large hall upstairs.

Detail from one of the maps on display on the second floor.

The Lost Weekend

At Village Whiskey in Center City

Fairmount Park Houses: Woodford

Woodford was once home to George Clymer a signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

Original pine floorboards in the 1758 portion

Toleware above a hearth in the 1770's addition

Side chair made in Chester County, circa 1730

A bowl upstairs

Woodford from the side

Fairmount Park Houses: Mount Pleasant

Mount Pleasant was built by a wealthy Scot in 1762 in the high Georgian style

The central hall on second story

A conservator's woodworking tools are upstairs

Sunlight streams onto floor of main parlor

Winter Light

Drive

On the Girard Point Bridge

Ich Habe Genung

Top Ten Philadelphia Jobs According to Me

I have lived in Center City Philadelphia for more than seven years now, and during that time I have observed the city, and learned a thing or two about it. What follows is a list of what are, by my estimation, the most popular "jobs" in America's fifth-largest city. As you can see, some of them are quite respectable professions. Others of them however, are not really jobs in the traditional sense of the word, and might be better described as "lifestyle choices".

1. Student
2. Nurse
3. Physician
4. Other University faculty or staff
5. Other Medical staff
6. Bike messenger
7. Bartender
8. Metermaid
9. Vagrant
10. Thug

I'm really going to miss you (II)

Giant grocery store in Talleyville, Delaware.

Growing (c)old together

Yes, we have no eggs

The Super Fresh at 10th and South Streets is usually out of something. This evening it was eggs.

Playing with Fire

Keystone and Lintel

BWV 211

A Midwinter Night's Dream

Small Wonder

Research Library of the Delaware Historical Society.

Old Spice

Applications being accepted online!

When I saw four Philadelphia firefighters in their boots and suspenders in the local Super Fresh buying three dozen eggs and several packages of Taylor Pork Roll, I couldn't wait to tell my brother, still a member of the volunteer fire company back home, and fellow fan of that Trenton breakfast meat. Imagine my delight then, on seeing parked out back, no less than a ladder truck. When he saw me taking pictures of it a firefighter got out, asked if I "liked fire trucks" and told me with a grin that the Fire Academy is now accepting applications online.

At the office